Many Canvas institutions offer programs governed by state or accreditation board requirements for high-stakes testing. Requirements for such programs often include the need to grade students with precision to the second decimal place.

User goals

As an instructor:

I see two decimal places in the calculated totals column in my course gradebooks

I see data related to any grading scheme I might have implemented in the totals column, too, and the addition of the second decimal place doesn't cause this information to appear squished or too small to read

When I download a gradebook .csv from one of my courses, the totals column in the .csv also includes two decimal places

Timeline

This feature is currently in QA. We anticipate it will be ready for the production release on 6/6/15.

According to the Canvas Beta Release Notes (2015-05-26) "If the Total Grade column is shown as a percentage, the percentage is rounded to two decimal places. This change is also shown in Gradebook CSV exports. For instance, if the Total Grade for a student is 99.567, Canvas previously rounded the grade to 99.6%. With two decimals, the grade is now rounded to 99.57%."

Do you mean that you are only seeing one decimal value displayed or that Canvas is rounding to one decimal? For example; are you seeing 99.6 instead of 99.57 or 99.5? Are you possibly in a course that existed before May 26th?

As an instructor: from the Grades page (Default Gradebook) I can see two decimals (87.67), but when I click on the student to see only his/her grades then the total is rounded to one decimal only (87.7%).

Same output from the student account, the total is rounded to one decimal only (87.7%). This is a new course.

Scott Dennis -- I'm seeing another inconsistency with this feature. When using percentage-weighted assignment groups the gradebook Total column rounds to only one decimal. When I turn off assignment group weights the gradebook Total column displays two decimals.

What's the intended behavior for this feature? This inconsistency, along with what Fede Arbelaez pointed out from the student perspective, is causing some problems for our faculty for distributing final grades (it's finals weeks for us!)

When the final grade is weighted based on assignment groups, the Gradebook summary column is rounded to two decimal places.

Explanation: When an instructor enabled weighted assignment groups, the total column rounded to only one decimal place. This behavior occurred because the column was not coded to round with the weighted setting enabled. Canvas code has been updated to round to two decimal places regardless of the weighted assignment group setting.